Example sentences of "but [conj] it [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Clause was wrong if it meant schools could not have proper and adequate discussion , but if it meant that local authorities should not promote homosexuality then Mr Roberts would support it . |
| 2 | To which he , Wittgenstein , replies , ‘ But if it meant that , then I ought to know it , I ought to be able to refer to the experience directly , and not only indirectly . |
| 3 | But since it seemed that her car was going nowhere without one , ‘ Could the mechanic fit one for me — as a matter of some urgency ? ’ she asked anxiously — and discovered that her rescuer must have already put that same question to him . |
| 4 | His wife had disapproved of this development at first — he suspected that she had paired off Damien and Clare in her mind — but when it transpired that Mark had been baptized a Catholic , and when he started to go to Mass again , she had become favourably disposed to the idea of their going out together . |
| 5 | She rather spoilt him now and again ; but when it showed that he was n't intelligent like Constanza she did n't like it . |